Here are some photos I took of the Benson Ford which since 1986 has been placed on the Western end of Put-In-Bay. I use these photo’s to build the scale model of the Benson Ford, I built for the current owners Bryan and Gerary Kasper of Sandusky, Ohio. It was recently featured on “The Travel Channel” as one of the most unique vacation homes in the world!

The model is a replica of the original ship just before it’s scrapping, with the bow placed in Put-In-Bay as a home. The Kasper’s after seeing some of my model, asked me if I could build them a model of the Benson Ford. The model is 60” long and took over 100 hours to build. Balsa, bass, beech wood and styrene and some of the materials I used, with some small parts from Ship Crafters. It’s built off of photos from Inland Seas Museum Vermillion, Ohio and of course these photos of the bow and a good tape measure.

Check out the photo's Russ took during his visit with the Kasper's, and there Benson Ford they call home at the bottom of the page. Click Here

The Benson Ford on Put-In-Bay.